She was also less cold and cruel than most green Martian women, and caring little for their society, she often roamed the deserted avenues of Thark alone, or went and sat among the wild flowers that deck the nearby hills, thinking thoughts and wishing wishes which I believe I alone among Tharkian women today may understand, for am I not the child of my mother?
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Otherwise, from the distant yellow hills to the pine trees at the foot of the downs, everything was newly washed into being, in a flood of new, golden creation.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Before the labials p , b , f , and m this weakened sound was intermediate between i and u ( 28 ), and both spellings occur: as, quadripēs and quadrupēs , four-footed ; alimentum , nourishment ; monumentum , monument .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

By Dante he is converted into a demon, and with his three throats, canine voracity, and ugly inflamed bulk, is appropriately set to guard the entrance to the circle of the gluttonous and wine-bibbers.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Rooke stopped intercourse between Ireland and Scotland, where were many Stuart partisans, and then with his small squadron passed along the east coast of Ireland, attempted to burn the shipping in Dublin harbor, failing only through lack of wind, and finally came off Cork, then occupied by James, took possession of an island in the harbor, and returned in safety to the Downs in October.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

andas : A platform with handles, on which an image is borne in a procession.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

32 They died in torments, and their torments were imbittered by insult and derision.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

In biology, isolation as a factor in the evolution and the life of the species, is studied from the standpoint of the animal group more than from that of the environment.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

For if it be in any other particular Man, or private Assembly, it is in a person subject, and may be assumed by the Soveraign at his pleasure; and consequently the Right is in himselfe.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

I feel as though I were breathing the air I belong in, at last.
— from Jewel Weed by Alice Ames Winter

Nor will it become in a less degree my duty to assert and maintain by all constitutional means the right of the United States to that portion of our territory which lies beyond the Rocky Mountains.
— from U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses by United States. Presidents

But the pointed arch does not occur, I believe, in any Moorish buildings; while the great mosque of Cordova, built in the eighth century, resembles, except by its superior beauty and magnificence, one of our oldest cathedrals; the nave of Gloucester, for example, or Durham.
— from View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam

‘I do not know what was in my bed, but my whole body is bruised; I am black and blue, and I never closed my eyes until dawn!’
— from Samuel Brohl and Company by Victor Cherbuliez

Incited by insatiable avarice, or blind ambition, which is still more insatiable, he becomes callous to the feelings of humanity; regardless of his own welfare, his whole thoughts turn upon the destruction of his own species, which he soon accomplishes.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 10 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

There were dinners, balls, déjeuners , and picnics in the Bois de Cambre, excursions to Waterloo, and select little parties to Boisfort (a charming little resort in the forest), whose intense Cockneyism became perfectly inoffensive, being in a foreign land and remote from the invasion of home-bred vulgarity.
— from Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Charles James Lever

Forel observing a large Ants' nest counted more than 28 insects brought in as food per minute.
— from The Beauties of Nature, and the Wonders of the World We Live In by Lubbock, John, Sir

He asked me to take the letter for him, and as he's the father of a school chum of mine, Stan Moncrief; I brought it along, and here it is," Paul explained rapidly, as he handed Mr. Moncrief the letter.
— from The Hero of Garside School by Panting, J. Harwood, (James Harwood)

I Owke. suppose that Leland calleth the Bardwell by the name of Owke, but I will not abide by it bicause I am not sure of it.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison